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To: Golden Eagle
No it doesn’t, BSD purposefully avoids using GPL code wherever possible, they have strong philosophical differences just as the article indicates.

#uname -a
OpenBSD cerberus.knitebane.net 4.0 GENERIC#3 i386

#cc --version
cc (GCC) 3.3.5 (propolice) Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

BSD often uses GPL'd code. They compile all their software with a GPL'd compiler. They link to many GPL'd libraries. BSD has never been GPL-free.

Wishing it was true doesn't make it so.

35 posted on 09/05/2007 8:51:13 AM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: Knitebane

I never said there was “none”, just not “lots”. What is there they’d like to replace, trying to claim BSD is as dependent on Stallman as Linux is shows the absurdity if the Stallman supporters.


36 posted on 09/05/2007 9:31:28 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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